amount

[ə'maunt]

词形变化: amounted amounted amounting amounts

  • 正在加载“amount”的释义
例句用法 短语词组 近反义词 海词讲解 英英解释

1.

The amount of unemployed capital is very large.

未被利用的资金数量很大。

2.

The railroad gives free transportation for a certain amount of baggage.

铁路免费运送的行李是有一定数量的。

3.

It all amounts to a lot of hard work.

那一切意味着大量艰苦工作。

4.

A large amount of money is spent on advertisements every year.

每年都要花费大量金钱在广告上。

5.

My savings amount to $2000.

我的储蓄共达2000美元。

【近义词】

【词源解说】

13世纪中期进入英语,直接源自古法语的amonter,意为往上,向山上去。

【词义辨析】

quantity amount number sum
quantity: 书面用词,指事物的总量和总数量,侧重大批计量,含准确测量的意味。
amount: 普通用词,与quantity近义,但强调整体,指把所有数量、重量及度量归并在一起得出的总数。
number: 普通用词,指人或物的数目,强调数的概念。
sum: 普通用词,指简单加算的结果。

【词语用法】

  1. amount后可接介词to。
    • The expenses amount to ¥50.
  2. amount后也可接动名词,要注意不要与不定式混淆。
    • That amounts to saying that he is a genius.
      saying不可改成say。
  3. 做名词时,只能用在不可数名词,如能说a large amount of literature,不能说a large amount of books。
  • 错句举例与错句分析

    错句:There was also a large amount of beggars.

    纠正:There was also a large number of beggars.

    翻译:那有很多乞丐。

    分析:人的数量不可用amount来表示。

名词 amount:

1.

a quantity of money

同义词:sum,sum of money,amount of money

2.

the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion

3.

how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

同义词:measure,quantity

4.

a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

同义词:sum,total

动词 amount:

1.

be tantamount or equivalent to

2.

add up in number or quantity

同义词:total,number,add up,come

3.

develop into

同义词:come,add up

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